Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Acts chapter 5 verse 29, but Peter and the Apostles answered,

we must obey God rather than men.

Oh, I want that prayer to be the commentary of my life.

And I would encourage,

may that prayer be the commentary of your life,

that it would be said that what drove us, the motivation

that woke us up in the morning and the drove every single decision we make and thought we have, desire we have, thing we do, that

it's all driven by God I want to obey you, not people.

So I just see in my own life this dangerous tendency

and temptation to be a people pleaser to just want to do what will

make people think well of me and I see in my pride such a sinful tendency to let that motivate me.

Like how will this affect the way others perceive me? How will this affect the way others perceive me how this affect the way others think of me?

What will others think about this or that? And I just think what would it be like if I was

Driven like my every thought, desire action was driven, what will God think of this?

What will God think of this?

What will God think of this?

What will most please him?

What is most obedient to his word, like for that to be the driving motivation

of my life, your life, because this is what matters.

I mean, people's perception, people's praise and applause even we know we know all over

scripture we know and experience like it's fleeting it's fleeting it doesn't

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